LAURO GONZALEZ
Office: 55 11 3799 7772
email: [email protected]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
•Professor at Fundação Getulio Vargas-EAESP, São Paulo Brasil , since 2004.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
 Visiting Professor at Columbia University (NYC) in 2014 and 2015.
 Visiting Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris 9), Master of International Economy and
Development in 2012 and 2013.
•Director of the Center for Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Studies at FGV since 2007.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D 2007 (Economics), Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo.
• Visiting Scholar 2004, Columbia University, NYC, USA .
• M.A 2002 (Economics), Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
i)Peer-Reviewed Publications
Gonzalez, L. Moser,R.; Green Microfinance in Brazil: the case of the Cresol System, Forthcoming,
July/August, 2015 Revista de Administração Pública (RAP)
.
Moser,R. Gonzalez, L.; Microfinace and Climate Change: the Caso of Agroamigo in Brazil , Forthcoming,
July/August, 2015 Revista de Administração de Empresas (RAE)
.
Gonzalez, L.; Pereira, T. Evaluating Banking Agents: A case of Brazilian Banking Correspondents
DLSU B&E Review. January,2015, Vol. 24, No. 2.
Mettenheim, K. ; Diniz, E. ; Gonzalez, L. . New Perspectives on Banking and Agendas for Financial
Inclusion. Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship, v. 7, p. 5-41, 2014.
Gonzalez, L. Righetti, C. Di Serio, L.C. Microcredit and Income Impact: the Case of Banco Real, .
Revista de Análise Econômica in December, 2014.
Galeao,L, Gonzalez,L. Alves, M. Comunidade e Reconhecimento nas Relações Economicas,
Cadernos de Psicologia Social do Trabalho, Vol 15, número 2, 2012.
Lavoie, F. ; Pozzebon, M. ; Gonzalez, L. . Challenges for Inclusive Finance Expansion: the Case of
CrediAmigo, a Brazilian MFI. Management International (Montréal)
, v. 15, p. 57-69, 2011.
Gonzalez, L.; Bresser-Pereira, L. C. ; Lucinda, C. Crises financeiras nos anos 1990 e poupança
externa. Nova Economia (UFMG) , v. 18, p. 313-334, 2009.
Gonzalez, L. ; Caio Piza ; GARCIA, D. . Synergy between Microinsurance and Microcredit and
Market Growth in Brazil. Brazilian Review of Risk and Insurance (Online) , v. V05, p. 29-54,
2009.
Driusso, M; Gonzalez, L. . Inovações no Microcrédito. GV Executivo. Getulio Vargas Executivo
v. 7, p. 56-61, 2008.
,
ii)Book
Vidal, V.;Gonzalez, L. Microinsurance in Brazil: Current Situation and Outlook., Ed. Quartier Latin,
2012.
iii)Book Chapters
Bresser-Pereira, L. C. ; Gonzalez, L. ; Lucinda, C. Globalization and Competition: Why some
emergent countries succeed and other fall behind, Cambridge University Press , 2010, p. 204-219.
iv)Working Papers
Jaunaux,L. Venet, B. Gonzalez,L. Individual Credit and Social Pressure (Joint research with
Université Paris-Dauphine,LEDA.
Virole, L.Gonzalez,L. Pozzebon,M. Les incubateurs technologiques de coopératives : l’expérience
des universités brésiliennes.
v)Current Research Projects
Since 2014
Housing public policy and Credit Technology
Since 2014 Analysis of Branchless Banking in Brazil
Since 2014
Cooperatives and Microfinance in Brazil
Since 2013
Mobile Data and Financial Inclusion
Since 2011 Impact Analysis of Financial Education for Microcredit Clients and Government
Social Transfers Recipients
RECENT PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
Rural Microfinance and Climate Change, IV European Microfinance Research Conference,
Université de Genève, June 2015.
New Perspectives on Banking and Agendas for Financial Inclusion, Financial Inclusion Research
Conference, Harvard Kennedy School, 2013.
Microcredit and Social Capital: an Empirical Analysis, Latin American Studies Association,
Washington, DC, 2013.
Government Transfers and Financial Inclusion in Brazil, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium,
2012
Microfinance in Brazil, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2012.
Alternative Banking and Social Inclusion Conference, “Microfinance in Brazil”, Rockefeller
Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, 2011.
Doing Well by Doing Good Conference,“Technology's Role in Increasing Accessibility to Banking
Services in Developing Nations”, Universidad de Navarra, IESE, Barcelona, 2011.
Lecture Series, “Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in Brazil”, Kellogg Institute, University of
Notre Dame, October, 2010.
Institute of Money Technology and Financial Inclusion Annual Conference, “Banking and
Microfinance in Brazil” , University of California at Irvine, 2010.